back to the original brief saying the refusal to provide full and equal wedding cake services constituted discrimination based on sexual orientation in violation of the unrue civil rights act but also religion is a protected characteristics and her attorney argues the agency has chosen one right over another. the california state agency supposed to protect kathy miller from religious discrimination and hate crimes like this is actually the same agency that has been prosecuting her for six years. the california appeals court will likely rule on miller s case in 2025, but she said her and her attorneys say they are prepared to take the case all the way to the u.s. supreme court if necessary. sandra: a live look inside that atlanta courtroom where any moment now a hearing could shed light on communication between d.a. fani willis s office and the federal government, including the biden white house. that is set to begin a short time from now. hello, welcome, i m sandra smit
what donald trump rather see the border crisis fixed or campaign on it? take a guess. the lead starts now bipartisan senate border deal at risk of death with donald trump urging senate republicans to kill it so he can use the board as central campaign issue against joe biden . all the latest from capitol hill coming up to cnn on the ground in the streets of ecuador where gang violence plagues the country. this month gunman took over a tv station, see what our crew captured as police try to crackdown damaging auto leak, what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said on a hot mic that could ruin negotiations to free hostages held by hamas. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper you we begin with the 2024 lead, the immigration deal reported on the show for months which republicans insist on being part of a package to aid in ukraine in israel that whole deal might go up in smoke why? partly because senator mitch mcconnell, one of the powerful replicants other than form
stand. trump s time is limited and the judge wanted him to stick to the script he and haba agreed to and for the most part they did. let s go through the three questions haba asked him whil he was on the stand. first they asked trump do you standby your testimony in the deposition, the deposition he gave in this case. he replied 100% yes. then she asked did you deny the allegation because ms. carroll made an accusation. trump responded that s exactly right, yes, i did. she said something that i considered a false accusation, totally false. but then judge kaplan cut in. he wanted them to stick to the plan. he cut trump off saying everything he said after, yes, i did, is stricken. because remember they re not litigating here what is true and what is false in terms of what happened in that department store. that was litigated last summer. here haba s final question was did you ever instruct anyone to hurt ms. carroll in your statements. trump, said, no, i just wanted to defend m
a trump call recorded again and this time, he is heard pressuring two michigan election workers to not certify the 2020 presidential elections, the call, the promises on the call and the potential fallout today. and president biden heading into the new year with a game plan and campaign target, and as you can imagine, the target is donald trump, and the message he is planning to deliver to voters in key battleground states ahead. if you are traveling for the holidays, take comfort to know that you will be joined by millions of your closest friends that you have not met yet. the busiest christmas travel season yet is under way and we will track how is it going for you. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john is off today. this is cnn news central. donald trump, again, recorded pressuring officials in the futile attempts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. first, it was in georgia where he called the secretary of state and everyone heard tha
mugshot on just about anything he thinks his supporters will buy. from t-shirts to coffee mugs to beer cozies to bumper stickers. better for trump to try to cash in on it now because he ll need the money for an extremely packed and expensive calbder with the twice impeached four times indicted ex-president having dual arguments starting early in the year. that s because the judge overseeing trump s federal election interference case scheduled the trial to begin on march 4th next year. one day before super tuesday. that means as trump begins his defense to a jury of peers to acquit him, he hopes, for trying to overturn the last election, he ll simultaneously be making the argument to republican voters he should be their nominee for the next one. trump and his legal team had requested the trial not begin until april of 2026.